NCI Gadi /g/data

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NCI Gadi /g/data (Australia) — 110+ PB persistent parallel filesystem, allocation-gated Storage

fails: quotainstitutionno cardRwrite-gated

www.nci.org.au/infrastructure/storage-systems · academic · storage/nci-gadi-g-data-110-pb-persistent-parallel-filesystem-al · JSON · compare

Free tier	Infrastructure is huge — '/g/data4-7 \| 110+ PB \| Persistent Storage', 'Massdata \| 70+ PB' — but there is no free self-service quota: bytes come from the merit-based Adapter scheme or a share of a funded project. Adapter is 'temporarily closed. It is scheduled to reopen in Q4 2026'. unit none; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	Not documented as metered, but access is via NCI systems and Globus rather than public HTTP; there is no public-bucket download path like Allas or OSN.
Identity	institution derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: istent for the project. request-rate: n/a. Gate: Australian institution + merit review; Adapter currently CLOSED until Q4 2026. academic
Limits	write-gated review source per-object-cap: n/a (POSIX). Gate: Australian institution + merit review; Adapter currently CLOSED until Q4 2026.
Binding	write-gated the write is a queue with a person or a rule in it, so the upload rate is set by somebody else
Interface	s3, sftp sftp
Tooling	POSIX/Lustre on Gadi, Globus for transfer. No S3 endpoint in the storage-systems page.
Composes with	Adapter is quarterly and 'designed to identify meritorious research projects which need flexible compute access over a short period' — the short period is the anti-multiplier; you would be re-applying every quarter.
Reliability	Closed scheme — nothing to get today. Filed as a dead end with a reopen date so round 3 does not re-check it.
Notes	Infrastructure is huge — '/g/data4-7 \| 110+ PB \| Persistent Storage', 'Massdata \| 70+ PB' — but there is no free self-service quota: bytes come from the merit-based Adapter scheme or a share of a funded project. Adapter is 'temporarily closed. It is scheduled to reopen in Q4 2026'.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	www.nci.org.au/infrastructure/storage-systems	not published
2026-10-21	nci.org.au/users/how-access-nci/adapter-scheme	'The Adapter scheme is temporarily closed. It is scheduled to reopen in Q4 2026.'

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "Infrastructure is huge — '/g/data4-7 | 110+ PB | Persistent Storage', 'Massdata | 70+ PB' — but there is no free self-service quota: bytes come from the merit-based Adapter scheme or a share of a funded project. Adapter is 'temporarily closed. It is scheduled to reopen in Q4 2026'.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (7)

$.evidence[0].proved withheld
$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted